, and Skinner,
240 f.

336 See Davidson in Hastings' "D.B.," ii. 574, Driver and Gillies _in
loco_.

337 See above, p. 14.

338 E.g. cp. 26 with 9 and both with i. 15.

339 As Duhm asserts; see above, pp. 79 ff.

340 The above paragraph on xxv. 15-38 is based on Giesebrecht's careful
analysis of the passage.

341 xxxvi. 5, 19, 26.

342 Worn next the skin; not _girdle_ which came over the other garments.
See "Enc. Bibl.," article "Girdle."

343 So virtually Cornill, who, indifferent as to whether the story is
one of fact or of imagination, emphasises the choice of the
Euphrates as its essential point, compares ii. 18, _to drink of the
waters of the River_, and dates the story in the earliest years of
Jeremiah's ministry. On the other hand Erbt, who also reads
_Euphrates_, interprets the story as one of actual journeys thither
by Jeremiah.

344 I visited it in 1901 and 1904, a most surprising oasis!

345 Perath or Parah = Farah was first suggested by Ewald ("Prophets of
the O. T.," Eng. trans, iii. 152), quoting Schick ("Ausland," 1867,
572-4), by Birch ("P.E.F.Q.," 1880, 235), and by Marti ("Z.D.P.V.,"
1880, 11), and has been accepted by many--Cheyne, Ball, McFadyen,
Peake, etc.

346 See above, p. 55.

347 In the valley of Hinnom, where were potteries and above them a
city-gate _Harsith_ = (probably) _Potsherds_; in the upper valley
broken pottery is still crushed for cement; lower down traces of
ancient potteries appear, and there is the traditional site of the
Potter's Field, Matt. xxvii. 7.

348 So literally the term rendered _wheel_, A.V. It was of two discs,
originally of stone, but later of wood, of which in earlier times
the upper alone revolved and the lower and larger was stationary,
but later both revolved by the potter's foot. See "Enc. Bibl.,"
article "Pottery."

349 See above, pp. 84 f.

350 Hebrew adds _Rede of the Lord_.

351 Hebrew adds _House of Israel_.

352 A. B. Davidson.

353 To this we return in dealing with Jeremiah's religious experience.
See below, Lecture vii.

354 See above, p. 109 on iv. 3.

355 Luke xiii. 6 ff. Other parables or actual incidents illustrating
either the possibilities of characters commonly deemed hopeless or
the fresh chances given them by God's grace, are found